Job 12:6
The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.
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5The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.
Cross References
Job 9:24Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?
Job 21:7Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches?
Job 24:23God has given him a place for repentance, and he abuses it with arrogance, but his eyes are upon his ways.
Psalms 37:1A Psalm of David, in commemoration of the Sabbath.
Psalms 73:3Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!
Jeremiah 5:27Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched.
Matthew Henry on Job 12:2-6
Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 And Job answered and said, 2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn. 5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. The reproofs Job here gives to his friends,… Read the whole commentary →